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Eliav, former secretary-general of the Israeli Labour Party and later chairman of the "Sheli" or peace movement, states his solution to the Palestinian question in simple terms: "I am for halfing the loaf," he says. "We have all the loaf now--we should give the Palestinians their land and let them determine what they want, once they have recognized the state of Israel and agreed to live side by side...
...become a painful exercise in redundancy, will run second to White in the preliminary. Timilty, who presided over President Carter's now-defunct National Commission of Neighborhoods and ran Carter through Pennsylvania, is after the mayor's scalp for the third time. He compares the White administration to a loaf of stale bread, believes in tax cuts, limiting condominium conversion along the lines of the Cambridge plan and the "neighborhood movement." What the neighborhood movement is, nobody, least of all the senator's staff, can put his finger on, although they're all willing to throw around the buzzwords...
...Wine Omar Khayyam may have to be rewritten. For the Jug of Wine that went with the Loaf of Bread-and Thou, substitute Bag (for the Jug, that is). Instead of bottling their vintages in conventional glass, nearly two dozen California wine makers, including Almaden and Geyser Peak, are putting up bulk wines in four-ply plastic film bags equipped with patented on-off spout valves. Sometimes cunningly encased in cardboard kegs, the bags are cheaper than bottles, as well as easier to ship and store. The pioneering Scholle Corp. of Northlake, Ill., which claims that its bags keep wine...
...Lemmings. He in turn eventually brought along Radner and Harold Ramis (another Animal House co-screenwriter). Then counter-raiding began. For Saturday Night Live, TV Producer Lome Michaels hired away half the cast of Lemmings' sequel, The National Lampoon Show. When Belushi departed, Simmons replaced him with Meat Loaf, then an obscure rock singer...
...Angeles County, a landlords' organization. He devotes hours to unearthing new details supporting his case for lower taxes: he has determined, for instance, that the $8,000 sticker price on his Thunderbird includes some $4,500 of taxes and that 116 different taxes are levied on a loaf of bread...